the other half bodies and absences in the work of rafael spregelburd

“Only bodies and languages exist”, observes Badiou, adding that there are also truths (2006: 9). The article proposes that these truths appear in the empty space between the body and its absent halves; the names and the identities that they are assigned within delimited spaces. Following the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari (1980), the dissolving levels (or plateaus): organism, significance and subjectivity or identity, will be analyzed in several of Spregelburd’s works. The path is neither chronological nor exhaustive, but we will proceed using examples, that is to say in the terms of Agamben, “a singularity among others that in actual fact stands for each of them, and indeed applies to all of them.” (1996: 13).